Length of Shower: 13 min.--Sometimes I envy inanimate objects. Like a fence post. Not any fence post but one on the corner of a field and on top of a hill somewhere in the Midwest. Not only does that fence post not have to worry about material needs like food and clothes (it’s naked and beautiful), but its life is longer than mine. I like to think it was there before I was born and it will most likely be there long after I die. But other than that, just let your mind wonder about everything it gets to see! It gets to sit there on that hill and soak up the warmth of a day when the sun is perfect in the bright blue sky in October, while the fields smell of freshly harvested corn or wheat and the trees are starting to turn those beautiful and vibrant colors. It also gets to see the wonder of a thunderstorm roll in from miles away and then rumble the ground beneath its foot with it’s great crackling thunders when it gets overhead. Or in winter when no human or machine is around our fence post gets to marvel at the beauty of the perfectly fallen snow covering the rolling hills around it with that crisp white blanket of innocence. No footprints or slushy roads or kids throwing snowballs. Just the perfect snowy scenery untouched by man. Ah, to be something simple like a fence post. No politics, no money, no complicated workplace drama; just the simple joys of the earth. Sometimes I think that would be nice.
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